BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city’s Inner Harbor on Saturday night.
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Demonstrators used ropes to topple the monument near the Little Italy neighborhood, news outlets reported.
Protesters mobilized by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have called for the removal of statues of Columbus, Confederate figures and others. They say the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native peoples in the Americas.
According to The Baltimore Sun, the statue was owned by the city and dedicated in 1984 by former Mayor William Donald Schaefer and President Ronald Reagan.
A spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young told The Sun the toppling of the statue is a part of a national and global reexamination over monuments “that may represent different things to different people.”
“We understand the dynamics that are playing out in Baltimore are part of a national narrative,” Lester Davis said.
Statues of Columbus have also been toppled or vandalized in cities such as Miami; Richmond, Virginia; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Boston, where one was decapitated.
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Wow, so the BLACK Mayor, Bernard Young is okay with the desecration of City property. He is inciting violence with his approval of this behaviour. And then the lemechels who live there are ever so makpid NOT to daven with a minyan. Keep listening to your wonderful Mayor. Idiots.
Native Americans were Indians not blacks. The blacks were slaves brought over from Africa. They need to get their history lessons correct.
Totally Disgusting.
Spineless and ignorant mayor. Where is the Mafia? Are there any Italian groups over there with any sense of pride or responsibility?
Shame
While the violence and mayhem are wrong, Columbus did do bad stuff to the Native Americans.
And without him there would be no “Latinos”. Why do these statue-topplers hate Latinos so much?
Hey, Mr. “F”, it is you who need to get your history lessons correct. Under the supervision of Columbus, his crews and the Spanish settlers engaged in despicable atrocities, torture, and murder against the native residents of the island of Hispaniola, which is now Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Millions were subjugated, starved, tortured, and murdered by the Spanish settlers.
The Yidden in Baltimore are living in pachad. They cant leave. They are not wealthy and quite frankly they never were that bright to start with.
That’s how most if not all Jewish communities in the USA think and behave. They are hoping, praying and believing that things will get better. They will not. America is on a fast decline.
Its time to leave. If you value your life you ought to think about leaving.
Democrat scum who hate America.
I could not care less about statues but the lack of law and order by these violent floyd protestors needs to be stopped . We can’t allow people to loot and destroy what’s not theirs for weeks on end .? We can’t allow a situation where cltzens are scared to go out at night , citizens who chose to protect themselves can either get clubbed over their head or they need guns .
We need to ban all Floyd protestors . Any protestors will be tear gased . Anyone being violent we will shoot to kill. Enough already of these wild animals
So all of a sudden ‘frum Jews’ care about American history? They don’t celebrate the FOURTH OF JULY or THANKSGIVING! Maybe they are less patriotic than BLM and ‘leftists’ here. Police brutality is unpatriotic.
Rav Steinberg a’h was a GEM in torah learning, bain odom lachvero and teaching to be a mensch
Avrum: What are you talking about? Jews in Baltimore have the same mentality of those in New York which is the same as Jews all over the world, outside of Israel. They learned nothing from Europe. The hand-writing is on the wall. Society is collapsing and it is never a good situation for our people.
Who told you that Jews in Baltimore are poor? It’s the mentality that is poor.